Ghost Wars The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Name: Ghost Wars The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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ISBN: 9781594200076

ISBN-10: 1594200076

ISBN-13: 9781594200076

Edition: 2004

Authors: Steve Coll

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From the managing editor of the Washington Post, a news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan's ISI, and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/23/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.64" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 2.442



List of Maps


Principal Characters


Prologue: Accounts Receivable, September 1996



Blood Brothers, November 1979 to February 1989



"We're Going to Die Here"



"Lenin Taught Us"



"Go Raise Hell"



"I Loved Osama"



"Don't Make It Our War"



"Who Is This Massoud?"



"The Terrorists Will Own the World"



"Inshallah, You Will Know My Plans"



"We Won"



The One-Eyed Man Was King, March 1989 to December 1997



"Serious Risks"



"A Rogue Elephant"



"We Are in Danger"



"A Friend of Your Enemy"



"Maintain a Prudent Distance"



"A New Generation"



"Slowly, Slowly Sucked into It"



"Dangling the Carrot"



"We Couldn't Indict Him"



"We're Keeping These Stingers"



"Does America Need the CIA?"



The Distant Enemy, January 1998 to September 10, 2001



"You Are to Capture Him Alive"



"The Kingdom's Interests"



"We Are at War"



"Let's Just Blow the Thing Up"



"The Manson Family"



"That Unit Disappeared"



"You Crazy White Guys"



"Is There Any Policy?"



"Daring Me to Kill Them"



"What Face Will Omar Show to God?"



"Many Americans Are Going to Die"



"What an Unlucky Country"


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index